Read a full match report of the Capital One Cup second round game between
Liverpool and Notts County at Anfield on Tuesday Aug 27 2013.

Liverpool were made to sweat for their place in the third round of the League Cup, overcoming Notts County in extra-time, but at some cost to their pride and medical bills.

Kolo Touré was among three injuries which will have caused as much despair as a second-half deterioration which allowed a courageous League One side to threaten an upset.

For all their unprecedented cup success, Liverpool have also suffered more hiccups recently than a bloated alcoholic. Oldham last season, Northampton a couple of years ago and too many other embarrassments have been crammed into domestic competitions to sit uncomfortably with the triumphs.

Notts County threatened another at Anfield, Liverpool surrendering a two-goal lead and serenity for the chaos of extra-time and a series of damaging injuries, not least to Touré.

A sign of a competent manager is failing to make the same mistake twice and Brendan Rodgers’s memory needed no jolt of the perils of playing lower opposition.

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He garnished his team sheet with Daniel Sturridge, Steven Gerrard and Simon Mignolet despite the risk given Manchester United will be here in five days, but Rodgers well recalls how he was let down in the absence of his tried and trusted last season.

When Raheem Sterling and Sturridge put Liverpool two up, no one could envisage what would follow.

The charge began after four minutes courtesy of Sterling. The teenager demonstrated all the effervescence that earned him an England call-up last season, dropping the shoulder 30 yards from goal, dancing past two defenders and striking ferociously beyond Bartosz Bialkowski.

The League One side seemed to be facing a damage limitation exercise, before Sturridge added the ­second on 29 minutes. But Notts County mounted a stirring fight , and their increasing threat was rewarded when Yoan Arquin’s header halved the deficit on 63 minutes.

The Anfield atmosphere changed completely. Notts County substitute Coombes then equalised on 83 minutes firing in after another lapse on the Liverpool right by Andre Wisdom.

Touré had to be carried off in extra time. Aly Cissokho’s debut had ended on 10 minutes and Joe Allen limped off early in the second half. But Sturridge struck his second before Henderson finally settled nerves on 110 minutes. A win for Liverpool, but not much to celebrate at full-time.